I2BC Paris-Saclay

An art project to pay tribute to the laboratory mouse, often sacrificed on the altar of science.

More information: here

Contact: Sylvie Lautru <sylvie.lautru@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr>

MéDynA third plenary meeting, 17-21 October, 2022 at Ile d'Oléron.

More information here

Contact: Stéphane Bressanelli <stephane.bressanelli@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr>

After two years, the whole Genome Biology Department meet in person to celebrate the VI Genome Biology Day.

Last May 20th the Genome Biology Department met during a whole day to present and discuss the research projects carried out by the researchers of the department. Great short talks and posters covering studies on bioinformatics and genomics; gene expression and regulation; and dynamics and stability of genomes were presented during the day. In addition, two keynote talks were presented by Cynthia Sharma (University of Würzburg, Germany) and Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge, UK). Cynthia’s talk covered novel aspects of gene regulation by non-coding RNAs in Helicobacter pylori and Campilobacter jejeuni. Ian’s presentation focused into how the the Arabidopsis pan-centromere revealed the contribution of transposable elements on centromere evolution. At the end of the day, the winners of the ‘Best Talk Awards’ (James Provan, Barre’s lab & Kevin André, Souturina’s lab) and of the ‘Best Poster Awards’ (Amelie Besombes, Barre’s Lab; Kam Pou Ha, Bouloc’s lab and Estelle Leroy, Rougmaille’s lab) were announced. Altogether, this was a great day in which the GB department could meet and discuss about their favorite research topic: The Biology of Genomes.

Contact: organizing commeette <virginia.lioy@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr>,<yoshiharu.yamaichi@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr> & <angelique.deleris@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr> 

Early-bird registrations are now open until the 15th of May at a discount rate, and free for students. 

The PhysBio conference series brings together international scientists working at the interface between Physics and Biology. The scope of the conference is intentionally broad, comprising cell and tissue mechanics, biomedical engineering, morphogenesis and self-assembling, but also instrumental and methodological developments.

This breadth of topics goes together with a focus on excellent speakers, to whom we provide long-format talks that allow them to make their latest research accessible to all attendants, non-specialists and students included.

As discoveries of the coming decades will come from young generations, PhysBio conference series is endowed with a student committee that selected a dozen of short talks from outstanding PhD students.  

Finally, we encourage all attendees to submit a poster contribution to initiate the discussion on their research topics with all the other participants.

Registration until May 15th: http://lptms.u-psud.fr/physbio2022/registration/

The organizing committee,
Christophe Le Clainche, Martin Lenz, Karen Perronet, Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein, and François Treussart.

L'école thématique Ecoclim2022 aura lieu à Orsay du 7 au 10 juin 2022.  Cette école a pour objectif d'offrir une formation de base sur les enjeux environnementaux aux chercheuses et chercheurs de toutes disciplines.

Les renseignements et le formulaire d'inscription sont disponibles sur la page https://indico.ijclab.in2p3.fr/event/7951

Notez qu'un suivi en distanciel sera possible, de préférence pour les personnes en province, mais sans interaction possible. 

Les organisateurs : 

Guillaume Blanc et Guillaume Roux

Au programme

Cours introductif sur le climat

Jean-Yves Grandpeix (LMD)

Dérèglement climatique et impacts

Amaëlle Landais (LSCE)
Didier Paillard (LSCE)
Jeanne Gherardi (LSCE)
Mélanie Becker (LIENSs)

Cycles biogéochimiques, sols et agriculture

Bertrand Guenet (LG-ENS)
Julia Le Noé (ENS)
Petros Chatzimpiros (LIED)

Trajectoires de décarbonation

Henri Waisman (IDDRI)
Gilles Billen (METIS) ( à confirmer)
Aurélien Bigo ()
Emmanuelle Frenoux (LISN)
Tamara Ben Ari (iEES, Labo1point5)

Scénarios et modèles de sociétés

Luc Semal (CESCO)
Timothée Parrique (Lund University)
Emmanuel Combet / Valérie Quiniou / David Marchal (Ademe)

We are pleased to announce the 23rd annual meeting organized by the French research community working on transposable elements (CNET).

This event gathers researchers interested in transposable elements, including population and comparative genomics, molecular and cellular mechanisms, ecology and evolution. This year the meeting will take place July 4–6 in Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris.

We invite contributions including molecular, genetics and cellular studies, as well as bioinformatics and mathematical modeling approaches, applied to a wide range of model organisms (prokaryotes, plants, yeast, insects, ciliates, vertebrates, ...). The program will include invited talks, selected talks and ample time for poster presentation and discussions. Junior researchers are particularly encouraged to apply for oral presentations.

More information: here

Imagerie-Gif and CNRS Formation Entreprises are organizing a training to blow your mind with flow cytometry.

We offer you to acquire the theoretical bases in flow cytometry (analysis and sorting, experimental strategies), to be informed of applications and developments in very varied fields of application, and to initiate or deepen the use of analyzers and sorters.
The training will be split in theoretical mornings and practical afternoons. Practical afternoons will take place on GIF and ORSAY campus.
The training is opened to Student, researcher and Engineer.

https://cnrsformation.cnrs.fr/atelier-cytometrie?mc=Cytom%C3%A9trie

Contact person: BOURGE Mickael

The ICSN and the I2BC are the two major units of the CNRS campus of Gif sur Yvette.

The “institut de Chimie des substances naturelles” (ICSN), with a staff of nearly 150 people, is the chemistry pole of the CNRS campus in Gif sur Yvette. This unit develops activities at the chemistry-biology interface, with natural substances as the object of study and main source of inspiration. Equipped with numerous platforms, including two NMR platforms, the ICSN will host an NMR apparatus from an I2BC team when it moves from the CEA-Saclay to the Gif-sur-Yvette campus. However, the links between our two institute are not limited to NMR; the purpose of this first morning is to introduce you to ICSN in the hope of encouraging new collaborations.

This first Morning-Meeting, which will be the first of a series, will be oriented towards the platforms of the two units and duos of researchers to illustrate the fruitful collaborations already in place.

Please come in large numbers to meet your chemical colleagues.

Due to health conditions, the meeting will be held in hybrid mode, both in the auditorium of Building 21 on the Gif-sur-Yvette campus and on Zoom.

See program on the website: here

Contact for link: communication@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr

The morning was devoted to personal and scientific testimonies which highlighted Mike's imagination, insatiable curiosity and innovative ideas as well as his great popularity with students in France and abroad.

The afternoon was devoted to scientific presentations, around 3 themes that Mike was passionate about: biofilms, extremophilic bacteria and environmental phages.

These presentations were given by researchers from the department and by two guest researchers, Adrienne Kish (MNHN, Paris) and Romain Briandet (Institut Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas).

You are looking for an internship, come and meet us on October 15 at I2BC, 1 avenue de la terrasse in Gif sur Yvette.

More information: here

The OI MICROBES is pleased to invite you to the 1st MICROBES Symposium that will be held on September 7-8, 2022 in the Auditorium Blandin of the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, 1 rue Nicolas Appert, Bâtiment 510.

The interdisciplinary MICROBES symposium is a yearly internal meeting where the teams of the Paris-Saclay MICROBES community present their research. The Symposium will have invited speaker presentations, posters and selected flash talks of posters.

The symposium PROGRAM has five Plenary and Poster Sessions:

Session 1 - Health and Disease (wed 7/9/22 morning)

Session 2 - Ecology and Evolution (wed 7/9/22 afternoon)

Session 3 - Fundamental Microbiology (wed 7/9/22 afternoon & thu 8/9/22 morning)

Session 4 - Systems Biology and Engineering (thu 8/9/22 morning & afternoon)

Session 5 - Agriculture and Food (thu 8/9/22 morning)

Confirmed Speakers of the symposium are (to be completed):

Mathieu Almeida (MGP)

Harold Auradou (FAST)

Théodore Bouchez (PROSE)

Amandine Cornille (GQE)

Bernard Delmas (VIM)

Marina Elez (MICALIS)

Denis Faure (I2BC)

Tatiana Giraud (ESE)

Amélie Leforestier (LPS)

Bruno Le Pioufle (Institut d'Alembert)

Virginia Lioy (I2BC)

Filipa Lopes (LGPM)

Florent Malloggi (NIMBE)

Françoise Rul (MICALIS)

Guillaume Tresset (LPS)

David Vallenet (GM)

INSCRIPTIONS are free but mandatory. Note that places are limited.

Inscription deadline: August 31, 2022.

Flash talk submission deadline: July 15, 2022.

REGISTER HERE

 
For more information: oi.microbes@universite-paris-saclay.fr

The morning will be devoted to tributes and testimonials from people who have been fortunate enough to work with Mike Dubow during his teaching and research activities. The afternoon will be devoted to a symposium of the Department of Microbiology, which will focus on three scientific themes dear to Mike: extremophiles, biofilms and environmental phages.

Each theme will include a presentation by a member of the Department and an external collaborator.

Registration: https://evento.renater.fr/survey/hommage-a-michael-dubow-vendredi-30-septembre-2022-iary7xq2

Contact: hommage.mike@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr

METABIODIVEX, in which the I2BC is participating, and the IRN i-NPChem are organising the first thematic school entitled "Molecular Exploration of Biodiversity: New Challenges, New Strategies". It will take place from June 26 to July 1st 2022 in Aussois.

The themes will be :

- Chemodiversity in the era of "Big Data"
- Drug Discovery: Challenges and Strategies
- Evolution and diversity of plant metabolism
- Chemical ecology of marine organisms
- Discovery and production of microbial metabolites: from the gene to the molecule
- Digital chemistry and quantum computing

Registrations until May 15th 2022: https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR04/inscription

 More information: https://metabiodivex.sciencesconf.org/

Contact: Sylvie LAUTRU <sylvie.lautru@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr>

 Today, we announce an exciting event organized on the CNRS campus of Gif-sur-Yvette, by the young scientists of I2BC and for I2BC doctoral students: the I2BC doctoral students' symposium.

Save the date : 16 & 17th June.

Essentially build around the scientific work of I2BC doctoral students, speakers will also be invited to these two days of seminars and posters. Participating in doctoral students' symposium gives you the opportunity to have an overview of the new projects of I2BC groups.

All information: here

EMBO in-person workshop on Protein Termini in Bergen Norway 8-11 June 2022
Here is the complete list of 32 confirmed speakers: 15-20 additional speakers will be selected from the abstracts.
Don't miss this chance to join world-leading PI in the beautiful city of Bergen.
Deadline 11 March 2022!

 https://meetings.embo.org/event/21-protein-termini

The 2nd french congress on integrative structural biology took place on november29th-December 3rd at the Centrale Supelec building, located on the Paris- Saclay plateau. Co-organized by the Association Française de Cristallographie and the Société Française de Biophysique, it brought together over 250 participants of which 63 students.

The program of the event included 13 sessions covering health issues, DNA/RNA world, membrane proteins, intrinsically disordered proteins, macromolecular assemblies. Several round tables allowed discussions about “formation tout au long de la vie”, ” interactions entre académie/industrie”, ” infrastructures” and “la parole scientifique dans l’espace public”. A satellite event on the revolutionnary tool AlphaFold ended up the congress.

Many thanks to the institutional partners (CNRS, CEA, I2BC, ICSN, Ecole Polytechnique, ENS Paris-Saclay, FRISBI, IRRMN, Université Paris-Saclay , Université Paris-Saclay Graduate School Life Sciences and Health, Synchrotron SOLEIL, France-Bioimaging) and industrial partners (Bruker, Cytiva, CytobodX, Dynamic Biosensors, Eurisotop, GenScript, Horiba, Innova-Chem, Jeol, NMR-Bio, Refeyn, Sanofi, Servier, Sptlabtech , Thermofisher, et Twist ) for their support.

Congratulations to Magda Teixeira Nunes and and Luce Dreno who won the best poster prize of the AFC and SFB, respectively!

BSI website

Contact person: Julie Ménétrey